U.S. to ban American citizens from visiting North Korea

American citizens will be banned from traveling to North Korea beginning at the end of August, the State Department announced Friday.
“Due to mounting concerns over the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea’s system of law enforcement, the Secretary has authorized a Geographical Travel Restriction on all U.S. citizen nationals’ use of a passport to travel in, through, or to North Korea,” spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
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